The Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, highest official of the world Society of Jesuits, with the rank of Father General, declared here last night that “more general dialogues between Christians and Jews can take place.” The Jesuits, he stated, acknowledge now the part they have played in history in escalating religious tensions to “formidable proportions.”
“I think,” the Jesuit leader said, “there is a definite place for more specific contacts between Jesuits and Jewish religious leaders, as well as with educational and other organizations, and I trust these will take place.” Father Arrupe, whose headquarters are in Rome, spoke at a meeting attended by leading Catholics, Protestants and Jews.
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